On Wed, Nov 30, 2016 at 01:30:47PM +0100, Johannes Schindelin wrote: > On Tue, 29 Nov 2016, Jeff King wrote: > > > On Tue, Nov 29, 2016 at 09:36:55PM +0100, Johannes Schindelin wrote: > > > > > So the suggestion by both you and Peff, to use an environment variable, > > > which is either global, or requires the user to set it manually per > > > session, is simply not a good idea at all. > > > > No, my suggestion was to use config and have the test suite use an > > environment variable to test both cases (preferably automatically, > > without the user having to do anything). > > > > I do not see how that fails to cover all of your use cases. > > Oh, so the suggestion is to have *both* a config *and* an environment > variable. That is not elegant. No, that is not at all what I said. I was going to explain myself again, but I do not see what good it would do, as clearly my point did not come across in the other three emails. And then you would just complain that I am making work for you. So whatever. I do not care about your difftool topic at all. Do whatever you like (which hey, I already said before, too). -Peff